He is using filezilla I think. and I don't know anything about groups but he 
will write to ~username/archives/scott douglas

the archives folder and the 2 dj's folder names are set to write only bu I 
might try th eexicute thing as well. or set it to read and right. we'll see.
On Feb 1, 2012, at 10:44 AM, Travis Siegel wrote:

> Giving someone write access allows them to write files to that folder.  
> That's all the permission you need to delete stuff.
> If you want them to upload things, then their upload folder should be outside 
> of the project folder as a whole, so that there is no access for them to get 
> to other files.
> It won't hurt to let them have read access, but it's likely you'll need to 
> add execute permissions to the folder, sometimes some of the unix variants 
> (and I've not tested osx for this behavior) won't allow anyone to read or 
> write to the folder regardless of their permissions if they don't have 
> execute permission.  Odd, I know, but I've seen this behavior in slackware 
> linux especially, and one or two other commercial unix variants such as aix 
> and SunOs, though I'm not sure if it was just an artifact of the way we were 
> doing things, or if it's an across the board problem.
> The simplest way to control users and their permissions is via groups, add 
> them to a group that only has write access, then set the folder permissions 
> to write only, for the group, then they can't see the other contents in the 
> folder.  However, for reasons stated above, write only access isn't always 
> the best option.  Some ftp clients will try to cd to the folder one level at 
> a time, and if they can't hit the interveneing folders, they will fail even 
> though they're not supposed to care what's before that level in the file 
> hiearchy.
> In addition, I've seen ftp clients fail because they couldn't read the folder 
> as well, though this hasn't been a problem with the command-line ftp programs 
> I've used.
> Check to see what client this person is using, and try it yourself, to see if 
> it's arguing or not.  Then, if it is, check your system logs to see what the 
> error actually is, this will help track down the problems.  In osx, the 
> console app (located in the utility folder) will give you access to the 
> system logs.
> hth.
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